Your Thekla thumbnails are 100% your strongest, not least because you're clearly using some new digital painting techniques - so not 'drawing' (as in many of your previous thumbs), but painting and allowing the brush marks to convey and communicate.
Thekla is a hard one - because if you're careful, you'll end up drawing three versions of a building site; Thekla can be a bit 'unfinished buildings, unfinished buildings, unfinished buildings'. My advice is to give more time to thinking about the inhabitants of Thekla, for this way I think your role as a concept designer will fast become more interesting. So - some jumping off points in addition to the ideas you've already established in your mission statement.
Calvino describes a city that is always being developed, re-developed and is never finished. Is the city going up? Is the city going wide? In this sense, is the city like some kind of architectural 'tumor' that is 'out of control'?
Logically, there are two sorts of people in Thekla who are busier/more important/more valuable than other types of people: I'd suggest that architects would be revered in Thekla (like gods or kings/queens) or, they would be hated (like gods or kings/queens) because they are always meddling/changing things. One way perhaps to ensure you're not just drawing 3 images of a building site is to think about where these 'kings and queens' might live and work...
What of the builders and construction workers? Would they be revered as disciples, or are they slaves (Metropolis-style?). The Industrial Revolution saw huge numbers of people leave the countryside for the cities for employment, and the result of this was slums and terrible working conditions. What would it be like to be a construction worker in Thekla.... and where would they live? I'd argue that Thekla cannot be therefore an 'abandoned city' - it would be absolutely teeming with activity.
Thekla sounds like a dangerous place to me... Health and Safety anyone?
And from where do all the building materials come from? They'd need so much steel, wood etc - does Thekla have entire districts dedicated to manufacture and processing?
In terms of identifying some of the concept art opportunities Thekla promises, I suggest you ask the sort of questions that hover just outside what Calvino tells you; there are so many logistical and cultural/societal implications around this city, and by answering some of those questions, I think you'll be able to move your ideas into some more expansive and ambitious areas.
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OGR 04/10/2018
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Your Thekla thumbnails are 100% your strongest, not least because you're clearly using some new digital painting techniques - so not 'drawing' (as in many of your previous thumbs), but painting and allowing the brush marks to convey and communicate.
Thekla is a hard one - because if you're careful, you'll end up drawing three versions of a building site; Thekla can be a bit 'unfinished buildings, unfinished buildings, unfinished buildings'. My advice is to give more time to thinking about the inhabitants of Thekla, for this way I think your role as a concept designer will fast become more interesting. So - some jumping off points in addition to the ideas you've already established in your mission statement.
Calvino describes a city that is always being developed, re-developed and is never finished. Is the city going up? Is the city going wide? In this sense, is the city like some kind of architectural 'tumor' that is 'out of control'?
Logically, there are two sorts of people in Thekla who are busier/more important/more valuable than other types of people: I'd suggest that architects would be revered in Thekla (like gods or kings/queens) or, they would be hated (like gods or kings/queens) because they are always meddling/changing things. One way perhaps to ensure you're not just drawing 3 images of a building site is to think about where these 'kings and queens' might live and work...
What of the builders and construction workers? Would they be revered as disciples, or are they slaves (Metropolis-style?). The Industrial Revolution saw huge numbers of people leave the countryside for the cities for employment, and the result of this was slums and terrible working conditions. What would it be like to be a construction worker in Thekla.... and where would they live? I'd argue that Thekla cannot be therefore an 'abandoned city' - it would be absolutely teeming with activity.
Thekla sounds like a dangerous place to me... Health and Safety anyone?
And from where do all the building materials come from? They'd need so much steel, wood etc - does Thekla have entire districts dedicated to manufacture and processing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6kAEcG7mmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V7jXGHmjb0
In terms of identifying some of the concept art opportunities Thekla promises, I suggest you ask the sort of questions that hover just outside what Calvino tells you; there are so many logistical and cultural/societal implications around this city, and by answering some of those questions, I think you'll be able to move your ideas into some more expansive and ambitious areas.
sorry - correction - I meant to write 'because if you're *not* careful...'
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